Thursday, February 27, 2014

Kathy Hess Court Dates as listed in the court documents:Call courthouse (Judge Cleary's Superior Court I) to check if these have been rescheduled, if you plan to attend.First Pretrial- March 17 at 11 AMFinal Pretrial and Plea deadline- May 19 at 3 PM

This meeting was preceded by an executive session from 4 to
almost 5 PM with the 911 Advisory Board. All members of that board were present
except for Gene Hunefeld.

At this 5 minute special meeting Commissioner Lynch noted
that the Commissioners were given a favorable recommendation from the 911 board
to reappoint Charlie Ashley. He then motioned to approve Charlie Ashley on an
interim basis with periodic review by the 911 advisory board. These reviews can
occur at any time. Art Little seconded the motion. Motion passed.

Also present: Gayle Pennington,
Auditor and Teresa Randall, County Administrator

DC
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION – Fred McCarter- The Dearborn County
Quality of Life Endowment Fund was one of the first and now they have 110
endowment funds. Endowment matching program is essentially doubling your
donation. $25,000 is the maximum that any one donor can get matched now.
Endowment has grown by nearly a million dollars. Endowments are different from
the grant programs. Donor base has grown. Some funds have donations continuing
to come in- some don’t have any more. $84,057.35 is the county’s distribution
this year. McCarter asked that they allow them to keep $75,000 of that. Or all.
Council decided to roll the entire
amount over to continue to grow the endowment for the community.

PROBATION – SUPERIOR
COURT – Judge Blankenship - Salary Adjustment from probation user fees to
supplemental for Steve Kelly who is also heading up changes in community
corrections. Morris is very impressed with the
progress they are making in getting people back to the community. It addresses
the monumental drug problem we have here. Lansing asked what they reorganized.
Community Corrections is funded by non- tax dollars. It provides a way for
people to get in touch with community service and also the in-home program and
have case management. They meet goals and go to classes. They want them to
become productive citizens. They were not up to par with what was expected by
the dept of corrections. They have improved. They are also coordinating with circuit
court, Ohio County, and Switzerland County. Kelly is Probation Officer for both
Superior Courts and head of Community Corrections. Probation officers are paid
through the county and the state sets guidelines of what they have to be paid.
Mr. Bradley will not be coming in for the same thing- he is more than happy for
Kelly to do this per Judge Blankenship. This money is already budgeted $58,581
as Kelly’s salary. Council approved the
transfer of funds. With Lansing the only nay. Kraus said he only voted Aye as
it was already appropriated.

PROSECUTOR – Aaron
Negangard- represented by Bryan Messmore. $25,000 from pretrial-Diversion Fund
to pretrial diversion special investigations.$207,439 is in the pretrial diversion fund
now. It is for special equipment etc. Council
approved the transfer.

Messmorealso asked
for a 4d child support and pre-trial investigator position and asked for
Council to support and endorse Negangard’s selection of Shane McHenry for that
position. Council already approved salary for that at Budget hearing. Lansing
said he didn’t think they’d want to lose him as SCU investigator. Council said
that they approved the position- who Negangard appoints is his choice. Nothing
changed from what was approved at budget hearings. This was already advertised
at that time.

SHERIFF – Mike
Kreinhop- applied for a grant from the DC Foundation for the canine training.
$5500 grant. They have the only one in the county now. There is no line item
for this- they use discretionary funds and donations for this. Rico is the
dog’s name. They travel with him to schools etc. He is docile and gentle with
kids. It is a tracking dog for missing people and suspects. They had a drug dog
before- they switched to a bloodhound for tracking. Approved by Council.

Mike Kreinhop asked
for the vehicle installation funds of $25,000 to take
equipment out of old cars and install it into the new cars. It costs about
$4500 per car. He asked to reinstate that fund. Approved.

Baudendistel brought
up the copay ordinance for jail inmates. He fixed the
ordinance to say 60 days to match state code rather than the 30 days they
currently have. There have been abuses in the payment of this copay with the
commissary card. They were waiting it out for 30 days and then the county
covers it as they are considered indigent. Approved
by council.

SUMMER ART 2014 –
Ruth Batta- brought in art work to show what the
kids have done. She is scheduling a trip to Columbus IN for the Miller house
and the architecture there this summer. Students are from age 7- a few high
school kids. They have been doing it for 28 years. They have an art supply
store that gives them a big discount for them. REMC is giving less and Proctor
and Gamble is giving some with a match form an annuity company. They get some
endowment money from Sunman- Dearborn to finish out the rest. It is originally
from Lawrenceburg. $2000 was approved by
Council again this year. She tries to get money from ones with the least
paperwork.

PARK BOARD – Jim Red
Elk

Guilford Covered
Bridge Park- $2,800 for preliminary engineering study to build earth berms to
slow down the velocity of flood water there. They are hoping
this is new money to Park budget. They will get a ball park number from the
study. They flooding keeps destroying the playground area. In addition to the
berms there will be planting of a lot trees from part of the North Dearborn
Project mitigation that is moved to Guilford with IDEM’s approval. Highway Dept
will help with this. Preliminary engineering will show the layout for the trees
and plantings.Council approved $2800.

Bright Meadows Park- updated
Council of where they are at and wants agreement and guidance. They are not
asking for funding yet. New restrooms would be $92,000 estimated. Traffic flow
was looked into also and parking. That made up the rest of the $235,000 estimate.
SDYAshould be involved per Morris. This
is a long range project. It may be broken into pieces. Morris wants the
horseshoe range removed. It will be when weather breaks as they are frozen.

County Farm Park Disc
Golf – This has been in the works for some
time. Approval for $25,100 to be used out of their fund that has $76,000 in it
from timber sales. They have local volunteers that are helping with this set up
etc. They could do tournaments a couple times to raise money to keep it
maintained. This is the only disc golf in the county. Council approved the $25,100.

County Farm Park
Privy & Parking – Part of long range plan for County
Farm. $25,500 approved for this.

Jail Construction-
$3.5 million to continue thru May. They need to draw
this down now. Approved. Lansing NAY.

Randall said it is going well- she could email numbers to
them after the meeting.

Randall said that
there will be an annual report that will go to Council on the state of the
County from Commissioners. This is the first time this was ever
done she said. It is in draft form and will be finished by March 1 and sent to
Council.

Baudendistel gave
council the update on the unsafe Building Ordinance and it needs council
approval as it establishes an unsafe Building Fund. Commissioners
already passed it. See Commissioners notes for the details on this ordinance. Council approved.

Steve Kelly from
Community Corrections spoke on reorganizational bookkeeping.
They get $500,000 a year grant from the state to house people to keep them out
of jail. Raise an equal amount approximately from user fees for people in home
incarceration.

All full time salaries into one line item for reorganization
purposes rather than 7 different line items. It will be easier to track. Part
time salaries of $100,000 a year are a separate item.

Prosecutor’s office, probation etc do this also. Council approved. They will still see
itemized at budget time.

HIGHWAY – Todd
Listerman - Infrastructure/Growth & Development
for Stateline Rd project- in 1999 Beam Longest and Neff contracted with county
on Stateline project. The project is designed and ROW acquired and utilities
are relocated. $2.3million requested for the construction from both these
funds. $1million out of infrastructure and $1.3 million from growth and
development. Starts at Hafners Landscaping for about ¼ mile. Storm sewers etc
and ADA compliant sidewalks etc. Traffic lights might be addressed after
finished. It depends on traffic patterns. Turn lanes will be there now too. There
are 6500 vpd there now. Council approved
$1million out of infrastructure and $1.3 million from growth and development.
Keyes NAY.

REDEVELOPMENT – Terri
Randall -Redevelopment Commission 2014 Budget Amendment-
Lynch spoke with Randall. They have worked with auditor to see how much to
transfer to the budget to cover Randall and Hayden’s extra work. Dennis Kraus
interrupted at this point and read the personnel policy to them and said that they had to go thru the proper
procedure on these positions. Changing job description, new job descriptions,
and compensation were to go thru this procedure with Human resources and the committee set up to recommend and review these requests. Council
tabled this to have them follow the correct procedure. March 11, 2014 at 6:30PM
the Council will have a meeting to consider this after it goes thru the proper
procedure. It changes job description, salary, and where the compensation comes
from. Charlie Keyes will be missing from March 11th.

AUDITOR – Gayle
Pennington

Lawrenceburg loan
payment- $37,745.01This bill comes annually. The total
bill is about $230,000 for radios. This is old equipment we can no longer use.
Morris wants to see if L-bg will accept half as payment in full to just be done
with it. ($115,000)McHenry will have to approach L-bg Council for this. Tabled
until Lansing can approach the city about this.

One dept wanted-
travel and reimbursement policy in black and white
with signatures on it. Mileage at 44 cents per mile and other required
documentation is in this. Signed.

Minutes-
December minutes and January minutes were approved.

Salary Ordinance
signature for- sheriff’s contracted employee question did not get a raise to
answer council member Keyes question. The salary ordinance was signed. A copy
will be sent to the state.

Appointment 911
Director – Commissioners tabled Charlie Ashley as 911 Director even though
the board recommended it. There were 2 members missing from the 911 meeting
which wouldn’t have changed the vote. However they commissioners wanted to meet
with the board in executive session before the March commissioners meeting to
discuss the opposition to ashley’s reappointment that two of the commissioners
mentioned hearing. They will try to meet Tues or wed at 4 PM next week. No
official action is taken until the first meeting in March. Lynch will be
missing from that meeting in March. Commissioners decided to advertise for a special meeting after the 911 board
executive session just to decide on their appointment.

Bill Black- District
9 Planning Council- removed from agenda.

NEW BUSINESS:

Assessor- Gary
Hensley- signatures for Tyler Technology Cyclical Reassessment- DLGF
delayed in getting a model contract so now they have those three contracts
combined into one.July 1 2014 thru June
30 2018. VP of Tyler Technologies is available if they have any questions
today. General reassessment has been replaced with this cyclical review. There
is a termination clause in the contract with 30 days notice. Commissioners
approved signing the contract and the performance bond sections.

National Day of
Prayer- May 1- requested by Connie Riegle and Irene Estes Dearborn Methodist-per
Randall for use of the Courthouse square midday. Approved.

EMS Contract
signatures- St. Leon Vol Fire Dept First Responders- per Baudendistel this
needed revision. New draft was signed by Commissioners and sent back to St.
Leon for their signature. Their financials were attached to the new draft.
Baudendistel asked to review others as they come in.

EMA Director-
Bill Black- Signatures for Weather Notice Declaration- from the last storm
event from 2-4-14 yellow to orange then back to yellow and normal on 2-10-14.
Signed by commissioners. They are leaving the current yellow advisory in effect
for another day to see what happens. He said he hada lot of good comments on the ALICE program.

Ratify Signature for
letter of Intent to DLZ- shortly after last meeting they drafted a letter
to DLZ saying they have the intent to contract with them but they could proceed
at their own risk to prepare. They are still working on the finer points of the
contract. Voted to ratify signature.

HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT:
Todd Listerman, Highway Engineer- Construction
Observation Contract for Collier Ridge Bridge between the county and Parsons
Brinkerhoff for $162,265.15 – this is an 80/20 contract thru INDOT.
Baudendistel reviewed and noted they had a termination for convenience clause.
Commissioners signed the contract. They also signed the subconsultant
acknowledgement letter.

Administrative
Assistant- Updated Job description-Randall said that these should be reviewed at times and the level of
work has increased from all the projects commissioners have taken on. This is
Sue Hayden’s position now. It also
passes the test for exemption. Executive Assistant is the new title. This
is a degreed position or an associates degree with relevant experience.
Commissioners approved this.

Agreement for Staff
services- County Redevelopment Commission- Dave Deddens Chairman of
Redevelopment Commission had two contracts for services from Terri Randall
and Sue Hayden for their approval. He also gavea shout out to Randall and john Maxwell for all their work getting the
Mills to the county.

The amount of the two contracts is less than what the county
had paid in the past per Lynch. He said we are doing a lot with less money now.
And he noted that he is a member of the redevelopment commission. Commissioners
signed the contracts.

ADMINISTRATOR:
Teresa Randall:

IT Information Technology Services agreement- network and
systems support with Midwest Data- and Ramsey Nusibeh was present. HiTech has
done a fine job here in the adm bldg. But they need to have someone who knows
the whole campus. Part of the scope of services includes meeting with the IT
group here. This is an annual contract. Evaluate continuously is part of the
contract. Cost is $4500 per year. The contract renews automatically and
requires 90 days notice to not renew. McHenry said he’s worked with Ramsey or
an associate for years. Black asked if his building was included now- and it
is. Commissioners signed it. Baudendistel noted this was less than the $25,000
limit for services.( meaning they don’t have to bid it out) [NOTE: The $4500 is a small fee- services
and equipment needed and upgrades will all be extras. No statement was made
regarding hourly rates or costs for tehse other services.]

Courthouse annex- Construction manager contract- tabled

Architect contract- tabled

Receiveda letter
from Jennifer Hughes and noted there was an active Rule 5 that was never used
for Animal Shelter. They just need to sign off and close the file on this.Commissioners signed this.

AUDITOR: Gayle
Pennington- $5,500 for canine training grant letter of support. This is an
ongoing grant each year. The dog and officer go away for training. It’s a DC
Foundation grant. They are following new state guidelines to keep tack of all
our grants. Commissioners approved.

Minutes for Feb 4 approved. Claims paid.

ATTORNEY: Andy
Baudendistel- Unsafe Building Ordinance-
reviewed by Homeland Security already. Bill Shelton- Bldg Inspector- would be
given the authority to issue orders under this ordinance. Vacating or
demolishing or sealing a building for more than 90 days will require a hearing
within 10 days by commissioners. They can also appeal decisions to the local
courts. There is an unsafe building fund that will be needed for this. Performance
bonds can be required of owners of blighted properties. Council may have to be
approached in the upcoming budget. Shelton only sees this being used in extreme
cases. It is not easy to do and it shouldn’t be – because this is people’s
property- per Baudendistel. Title searches would have to be done also. Shelton
said he has had success with just asking people to board windows up etc. Other
times people will say it is none of our business. This does not change
ownership of property. The county does not take the property. Health dept also
has authority in some of these cases. Lynch
wants a way to recoup funds the county has expended on these properties. There
are also blighted properties money – called the hardest hit funds- that we
might have from the state.This was
initially passed in 1981 and other counties have this in place. Commissioners
can be a hearing authority or they can designate another board to hear cases.
The $5000 penalty assessed to properties that are unsafe would go to the Unsafe
Buildings Fund. It is a non-reverting fund. $8,000 is about all the county
might get from the hardest hit fund. Actually these are dealing with
foreclosures and abandoned property. Commissioners approved the Unsafe Building
Ordinance.

Baudendistel will present to council a change for 60 days on
inmate copays for medical care and the commissary card.

COMMISSIONER COMMENTS-
Lynch said it was a great feeling to have an Olympic medal winner and it
was great to see all the support for Nick Goeppert. Lynch spent 4 days in
Washington DC with OKI meeting with 6 congressman and 6 senators and Federal
highway people. Donnelly and Messer made us feel welcome. The others gave staff
aide mostly.

Art Little- Bright Lions sponsored Nick Goeppert years ago.
Thanked the highway dept and hopefully they will get a break.

Shane McHenry- agreed that Goeppert was a really great thing
for us and Perfects. Media came to PNS also per Lynch.

LATE ARRIVAL
INFORMATION-none

PUBLIC COMMENT-Mark
Schmeltzer said that with as difficult winter we had – Grieve and the highway
guys did a great job.

Recently a grant was awarded for the
southern portion of the Whitewater River Watershed from the Indiana Department
of Environmental Management (IDEM) through a 319 grant for nonpoint source
pollution, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).The goals of the project are to create a
watershed management plan, monitor the water quality, and increase community
awareness.To learn more about this
project, please join us at the public meetings scheduled for Friday, February
21st at 1:00pm at the Harrison Public Library, 10398 New Haven Road,
Harrison, Ohio 45030 and 6:00pm at the Franklin County Government Center,
Commissioners Room (2nd Floor), 1010 Franklin Ave., Brookville, IN
47012

Friday, February 14, 2014

The bond reduction hearing was held at 11 AM February 14th
instead of the originally posted time of 10 AM. Judge Jonathon Cleary presided.
Negangard and Sharp represented the prosecution and Ewbank and Smart
represented Kathy Hess. Hess’s family and some friends were present in the
courtroom. Register Publication's editor, Erika Schmidt Russell, covered the hearing also.

Ewbank called three people to testify: Alan Hess, husband,
Marcia Smeltzer, daughter, and Kathy Hess.

Interrogation by both sides produced the following
information upon which Judge Cleary will base his decision for bond reduction
later today.

Hess’s husband is currently not working due to an old
unhealed injury that is being evaluated for surgical intervention. He is in a
wheelchair and his diabetes has contributed to the healing issues. He was a
machinist for General Tool. He is requesting that his wife be released on lower
bond to help care for him. Their two children work full time. Brad is in Muncie
as a head football coach and Marcia is a CPA locally. Both have small children
at home also and Marcia has been bringing in groceries for her father. He noted
that his wife worked at Woodland Hills for 28 years and that she worked at home
services and the hospital prior to that. They have lived in their home and been
married over 30 years. His wife’s sister and brother live in the county and
another sister is in Greensburg. She is even keeled and not bad tempered.
Negangard noted that his wheelchair confinement occurred after the arrest and
he was working before that.

Marcia is 36 years old and graduated from East Central, has
a college and masters degree. Her husband has to travel often as a
transportation engineer. They have a 3.5 year old. She stated that her mother
is not a traveler, and they take annual vacations. She stated that her mother
regularly brought home patients for dinner if they had no one to celebrate
birthdays with or other holidays. She stated her mother is loud and has a
hearing problem herself. She hasa get
it done personality. She trusts her mother with her child.

Kathy Hess has no passport, travelled to CA last year – the
furthest she and her husband ever went. They usually go to the Smokey
Mountains. Her only out of state relative is a brother in Hillsboro.

Alan Hess was recalled for questions and said that 20 people
had contacted him to come support Kathy today. They decided to keep it simple
for this hearing. He told the court that Kathy would get lost driving and that
he drove the entire way to CA last year. He said that several nurses and
doctors contacted them.

Negangard asked what kind of bond he could afford. He told
the $25,000 cash was ALL they had. If they used that he wouldn’t have anything
to live on right now. Negangard asked about $25000 surety bond and Alan Hess
said he didn’t know what surety was. They explained it would be 10% or $2500.
Hess said he could do that.

Negangard asked Judge Cleary to have the charging info in
evidence and Ewbank asked for the Probable Cause Affidavit to be in evidence
and both were granted.

Ewbank said Hess wants to be released on her own
recognizance or on in home detention with a surety bond. He bases this on her
family community and employee support.

Negangard said that she went to work for another nursing
home after her termination from Woodland Hills. He doesn’t want her to work in
nursing capacity during this case.Ewbank seemed to dispute the termination and also said that there were
no charges when she applied at the next nursing home. Ewbank said they tried to
not make this court a spectacle with all her supporters.

Cleary said that he would have a decision by the end of
today.

**** Bond was reduced to $100,000 surety ( which means $10,000 cash) for the bond order and other stipulations in the news story see Register website http://www.thedcregister.com/

Executive session
preceded this meeting at 8 AM. Randy Maxwell and Terri Randall attended the
last half of the executive session. Contracts that were discussed at this
meeting were approved. [NOTE: These
contracts relate to Randall and Hayden job descriptions with the county and
covering their time spent on Redevelopment work during the work day.
Commissioners will have to be involved in the final decisions on these.]

Minutes from Jan
9TH Meeting were approved

Unfinished Business-

2014 Meeting dates and times- 2nd Thursdays at 8
AM

Billboard on I-74-Billboard says 80 miles of opportunity and has a website to contact etc.
per Randall. DCEDI.com may change domain name. Contacts are not available at
that website now. Randall said we need to work for DC and also think
regionally. Could maybe bring more into that process and get more people to pay
for this. Flood plain issues need to be resolved before we aggressively market
down there (West Harrison). Randy Maxwell said that we will bring up the discussion
about the billboard and consider alternatives. Not illuminating it costs less,
Deddins said. He also said Tom Stone would work with them on that. $1600 to do
a whole new canvas on this. Negotiate with I-74 Corridor Organization was
approved. The contract with the billboard is with EDI and not with
redevelopment per Lynch- so the notice clause doesn’t necessarily mean us.
Helms said that a lot of counties may not be involved with I-74. The larger
cities along the way and Duke energy etc are still in per Randall. She doesn’t
think we have paid any membership into this group. Ewan said the old contract
with Stone doesn’t exist as EDI doesn’t. So a new negotiated contract would be
considered March 1st on per Deddins and pay thru Feb from
Redevelopment. Stone is willing to negotiate and said so at the groundbreaking
ceremony for the Mills.

Lynch left at this
time for work.- 9 AM

New Business-

Financials- $100,000 budget.Working on CVTB to get $50,000 of this. Talked to Charlotte Hastings new
chairperson of CVTB. Maynard also on that board and he said he does not know
where they are on this issue with new board members. CVTB ordinance was redone
as the membership representations were not appropriate. Dee Hacker and Dave
Lorey were not able to fit in with the new rules. They also had to balance
political parties. John Rahe asked for the above clarification.

Claims- $1million is still there for land acquisitions –
claims of $6527.52 were approved with the billboard payment of $1000 for March
until after contract negotiated to our new terms.

County Administrator
Report- Terri Randall- Annual Report- in process and London Witte has done
it in the past so it will be done by March 1st due date.

Randall reported on a Hardest Hit Blighted Properties
Program of 1-4 family residences- NOT commercial properties. This is a state
program that recently rolled out. This would be helpful for abandoned housing
and it would have up to $8.5 million in 8 counties in the district.

Randall is travelling to check on opportunities that might
help with West Harrison TIF. Through the consulting work with Randy Maxwell she
is coming across a lot of resources. A former P&G exec working with XU and
a website called Brand America is an example. Randy and I loved the
articles and called him and he spent an hour talking to us. Mark Neff notified
IEDC that I would be the new contact for all county business leads. IEDC
reached out to her and she will meet with them to get help and get up to speed.
Steve Pope at Epop ran website for EDI and he will work with her to modify this
to reflect accurately the people to contact and that we are a right to work
state. When you get a lead form the state and there is a long list of
information that they need in a week’s time. Got a confidential lead from the
state and it was a large facility that needed steam. So this wasn’t available
here. She read all the info needed- [
NOTE: Much of this is available at Planning and Zoning. In fact some is in the reports
for the next meeting of that master plan amendment group. I the past the master
plans have combed and added analyzed census block data to the master plans that
were published. The county planning office seems to be more than willing to
pull up this data and help the Redevelopment Commission. Wade Kimmons combined
with that office may be able to produce and keep that data updated at low cost
as they are already paid by the county. I did advise Randy Maxwell of that
source after the meeting.] She also reached out to the RR and Gennessee and
Wyoming is glad to hear from us and will be here next week to meet. She wants
to show the labor pool 10 and 20 miles out from the site.

Economic Development position has been approved and the
board has met and will meet with Mayors on a monthly basis. The official line
of reporting is to the board- not to her. They are moving forward with getting
that person. Wade Kimmon is really sharp with GIS and he is helping on EMS info
and showed others what he can do with their GIS to save money. If it means a
part time person to help they will up their budgets to help pay for this kind
of service. Gayle Pennington supports using him for this also. (He reports to
Pennington.)

Randall needs pictures and autobiographical sketch or resume
for the website for each of them.

Randy Maxwell hit on
3 things that have to happen:

Labor study is really important- # 1 factor when people look
for business sites.

#2 Quality of life,
access to labor important. We know it is great but we have to show what we
have. He talked to a big distribution center- and he told them about Cushman
Wakefield out of Chicago who can do a labor force study and it is not too
expensive.

#3 He thinks the story we can tell people is that we have a
lot of commuters who would rather work closer to home for equal or better pay.
Business climate and taxes are better than adjoining states. That needs to be
our model. That needs to be our story.

Last item for RFPs for more survey work for revised flood
plain data. He is hoping the river has dredged itself and that may reduce the
flood plain. This data will go back to the engineer to see what the data says.
You need to know what the survey says before the engineer does any more work.
Survey work won’t happen till May or June. [NOTE: Not sure I understand this engineer report. The new flood plain
maps exist. If they don’t corroborate that the properties are out of the flood
are, then how does a single engineer’s report play. Isn’t flood insurance based
on the official flood maps?]

Attorney’s report-
Andrea Ewan- She is part of College Success Coalition funded thru the American
Student Achievement Institute. They are looking for organizations to sign on.
If we sign on then we can access their labor force info. This will give access
to data. Grades 6-12 data and FAFSA data, ISTEP scores etc. This is brand new
and she wants to include the Redevelopment Commission as part of their
membership. FREE. Board approved joining this and she plans to reach out to
other Redevelopment organizations to join.